the media scandal continues to unfold in greece as yet another report turns put away people threatening the government for the nami exposé on the country's a disintegrating economy. after were decades behind bars as well the price people could pay for wearing a mosque during demonstrations in canada the parliament approves a controversial bill. syria's being hit but a new spate of attacks of that as washington announces a major overhaul of the countries of the session saying it will seek new rebel leaders out of those actually fighting on the ground.

it's eight am here in moscow are you watching are to live a with me to bang with say good to have you with us a greek journalist through threaten to reveal a high profile government fraud remains in custody spiros cuts a fairy's that was arrested on wednesday after he promised to expose live on t.v. alarming facts reportedly connected to the country's painful bailout deal this comes after another reporter stood trial on thursday for publishing a list of alleged top tax evaders meanwhile the country faced a major media strike and triggered by a suspension of two state t.v. presenters criticizing the minister on am tim got still of from free press magazine believes that the greek government would go to any extent to stop the information from going public. with the journalists in greece are absolutely doing their job the country is in crisis the people need to know what's going on their rulers own telling the the world. analysts are doing is trying to reveal to the public the

very most important information relating to the economic crisis the exposure they relate to the real crisis in greece and in other countries to which tax avoidance and the export of capital only taking money out of the country which is what happened to the greek economy the government is in absolute crisis in greece the economy is tottering the most terrible social deprivation it's a terrible time to greet people and they're being very badly treated not just by a degree by the whole european financial mismanagement they need to know the truth i don't see how they can get away with prosecuting these people it's actually going to be a very interesting test of freedom in greece. keeping your identity private during demonstrations has become a punishable offense in canada and moss activists could now face up to ten years behind bars authorities say the motion is aimed at tackling the growing threat of violence and vandalism canada full massive student protests against jewish and i

earlier this year and that one hundred being arrested canadian radio reporter michael for ian says that the new law will criminalize anti-government demonstrations nationwide. this law basically what it does is that it will criminalize people who are in protests if the police of that city deem the protest to be an unlawful assembly now of course that varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction terms of how easy it is for the police force to say this is an unlawful assembly or it is a lawful assembly but let's look at montreal for example and across go back in any major city and come back where if you were fifty people or more in a in a peaceful protest in a nonviolent protest that could be depended on unlawful assembly if you have an opera sent to your itinerary and the directions of according to your protests routes to the police force of them in a spot in the back before the protest has started and that's what's causing a lot of controversy because people are saying you know it's my inherent right to go out and express our opinions me able to go to the streets and take to the

streets in a peaceful manner when i was covering as a reporter the major i guess you protests that were happening in downtown one show because of the students protests that were happening there basically what i saw from my perspective is that i was even attacked for basically just filming police for doing my job for being able to report on the story what what's happening here and i mean some extent people said to me well you know you understand they're only doing their job that on a certain extent i think. barack obama and mitt romney are throwing everything they've got into a last ditch effort to woo voters into undecided states in the closing days of the pre election duel promises of change and economic recovery are taking center stage in what ironically the most expensive presidential race in u.s. history but talk about any cuts to the massive defense the spending is absent from the front lines of the campaign with both candidates expected to keep the money to military machine rolling as marina but now reports our military spending has gone

up every single year that i've been in office we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined china russia france united kingdom you name it america has a responsibility and the privilege of helping defend freedom we've got to strengthen our military long term i will not cut our military budget in a post nine eleven america the pentagon's budget has grown more than forty percent averaging half a trillion dollars per year critics say a new party or presidents in the white house won't change the policies firmly cemented in washington yeah these that both of these men are very much continuations of the military industrial complex is domination of our political system in our democracy so when they keep talking about how they're going to supply jobs increasingly that's where the jobs come from. both foreign interventions and also this giant so-called homeland security department price of defending the

homeland critics say continues to come at a grave cost to civil liberties this war on terror you know what. you know to. know you have a military force who leaves you know cracking down on protesters now you have this massive an empire in order to sustain. you need to have peace. to make sure that the war came rages are earlier this year the former cia director applauded president obama for closely following the controversial policies of his part assessor and despite a campaign that was based upon a very powerful promise of transparency president obama and again in my view quite correctly has used the state secrets argument. in a variety of courts as much as president bush more than six and a half thousand u.s. soldiers have been killed fighting america's post nine eleven wars and nearly fifty

thousand have been wounded in action are reported quarter million americans who have fought in iraq or afghanistan have been diagnosed with mental health injuries from combat service even as america's wars wind down the suicide rate among troops has surged to a thirty year high according to the pentagon this year's total may reach as many as one suicide per day it's not just what happens in war like the deaths and injuries or what happens afterwards you know you have these they're basically barrels coming home you know two to broke you need some families with. moms and dads in terms of the society is that something that wants you know do we want as a society where we have important members of our communities in the coming coming home with. and that's the reality of war in the two thousand and twelve

fiscal year tax payers funded a u.s. defense budget of five hundred forty four billion dollars it's estimated that some could provide two million military veterans with free medical care for thirty five years talking about national defense has been almost sacrosanct you know sort of like the defense department wants something to question that is to question. something that is unquestionable and that has meant that the largest part of the u.s. government spending has been beyond analysis beyond public scrutiny in four days americans will elect a leader for the next four years regardless of who wins the legacy of war cemented under the past two u.s. presidents indicate that the world's largest. offense budget will continue ballooning this causing many to ask if hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent to increase security or even road stability forty three aren't enough or not

artsy. and while obama and romney pledge to pull the us out of the deep dish of debt some observers say overspending on defense is the main reason they commonly ended up going down in the first place and there's no more important issue in america today than i have which we are spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go i mean our total is is more than the tough sixteen other nations in the world and says most americans know that this is just wasteful spending here it creates a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in a lot of ways besides trading a lot on this is sort of violence level you know what happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody stops it and before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming

debt. as a presidential frontrunner as a shy away from slashing the defense budget the alternative names on the ballot have taken the opposite approach but their party candidates are given no chance to deliver their message in the mainstream media so our to is helping break that blow kate you can watch the final round of the live debates between the green party's jill stein and in the battalion gary johnson on monday. international writes on an international we should not bomb iran we need to cut the budget and bring the troops we should end the war in afghanistan. first. let's deal.

a wave of bomb explosions has hit the syrian capital damascus killing one and wounding eight meanwhile activists claim and two regime fighters have killed twenty eight soldiers in the north of the country and this comes as one of the rebels' main back because america has called for a complete shake up all the syrian opposition revealing plans to hand greater influence to militants on the frontline he was secretary of state hillary clinton says america no longer sees the syrian national council as the main opposition force due to its lack of support on the ground yang group says it's planning to relocate to syria hoping to prove its relevance but washington has already had take several people can replace and leadership taking over from the s.n. scene syria is the m. it is imbued with various militias fighting aside from the media which have

reported being infiltrated by radical islamists linked to al qaida political analyst exiles the things the opposition shake up could be a prologue led to military intervention. what's happened in recent months as the offensive from the syrian military as it has developed what we've seen is that they have no real backing on the ground that is to say the manufactured opposition and so the united states in their imperialist project to destroy the independent nation of syria has to find another way and so a shake up of the opposition with new quote unquote leaders emerging this is the u.s. strategy we have syrian opposition the manufactured opposition i should say has been riddled with al-qaeda and other forms of extremist many of them imported from the imperialist war against libya directly into syria the reality is they're ordering the opposition they're arming the extremists because they want chaos in syria that is the only way to get military intervention and to move forward with the

imperialist project we have to remember that the end of the u.s. adventure in syria and. being in defeat i should say would be the end of us to germany in the middle east if they're only able to continue their march from syria that means their attempt to destroy iran is unlikely to fall so that means that their stranglehold over the persian gulf and the oil resources is weakening so they're putting all their cards on the table and sort of putting all their chips in the pot when it comes to syria or. some other world news a heavily armed gunmen have encircled libya's parliament building and with the approval of the new cabinet the militias also blocked roads leading to the assembly with armed pickup trucks the gunmen mostly made up of former rebels are protesting against a lineup of new ministers slamming some members of the alleged to the duckies regime libya's government which virtually on the cabinet on wednesday has struggled to bring us the war torn country under control since last year's revolution.

kuwaiti authorities have freed a prominent opposition figure on bail before my m.p.'s four day a rest over the charges against the nation's western backed government incited away by angry angry demos which were all brutally suppressed by police officials also responded to with a warning they would toughen the crackdown on dissent issued more protests occurred tensions in kuwait to ignited by proposed changes to the electoral roll which critics say is aimed at settling the opposition's chances in next month's parliamentary vote. coming up later this hour all forking out to go green. we look at how great is the strive for nuclear shutdown and the accompanying shifted towards renewable energy it's a liberating painful blow to them budgets. plus the business plans of russia's

former richest man jailed tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky may be leaving. his prison cell next july called reduce his sentence by mean yes. government no longer represents the. people who are going to take the term. we. believe in the traditional the way. the way our economic system currently is not.

going to. let. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hardy welcome to the big picture. we speak your language or not a day in. the music programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little too negative angles keep the stories. the

spanish find out more visit actuality that tito is calm. now watching r t good to have you with us russian businessman played on you have a death has had his prison term a sledge by three as it was put behind bars together with his partner russian former richest men rich girl got off scheme for their involvement in the infamous what you call scandal sean thomas has the details. his sentence was reduced from thirteen years to ten years by a local court and let me take you a little bit back through it to get to where we were today in two thousand and five both men were convicted of tax evasion and then they were retried in two thousand and ten and then convicted of stealing oil from their company now last year dmitri

medvedev who was then president introduced legislation to soften white collar crimes specifically favoring financial penalties as opposed to criminal sentences that therefore decriminalizing the more white collar crimes basically saying that these were not violent offenders and they shouldn't be treated as such so they would be financially punished instead now this set the course if you will for the decision of this lessening of this sentence the lawyers have said that this is the closest thing that they can get to a humane sentence and they do not plan to appeal this decision and just putting it into perspective has actually been in custody for ten years now he's serving his time here which means that he will be eligible for release in july two thousand and thirteen so this coming summer it's possible there. will be free.

to israel that an attack on iran what compromise washington in the region and. politically proactive hollywood. is related to the sixteenth president all of america abraham lincoln tells on that story and much more. german while it saw feeling of the pinch out from soaring electricity bills of pated by billions objective to rid the country of nuclear energy security and environmental issues behind the bed seemed to be perfectly valid but as pete all of our reports its ultimate implications could hit germans high. and. it was a resoundingly no to new clear from the german chancellor the other miliband a nuclear power completely step by step until the end of twenty twenty two as a country within that we can become pioneers on the way to create an age of renewable energy the two thousand and eleven meltdown at the fukushima power plant

in japan the worst atomic energy disaster since chernobyl is the key motivation for rushing through nuclear decommissioning is the security concerns are very strong this is the main factor in the decision to begin reduction of nuclear energy in germany potomac energy accounted for just under eighteen percent of german electricity in two thousand and eleven can renewable take up that slack government figures show that for every wind farm bill to generate three thousand megawatts the amount needed to power three million homes the only expected to deliver one hundred megawatts to the national grid in reality though over the last ten years they've only been getting around half of that slightly over sixteen percent the original three thousand which is force germany back into the arms of fossil fuel with nuclear power taken off the table by angle of merkel germany is building a new fleet of coal fired power stations this one me it's a cologne opened its doors an ogress of this year and it's up to these new power

stations to provide germany with the electricity it's crying out for electricity prices for the international competitiveness of the non-ferrous metals industry if the electricity price increases power once and total cost increase in a one hundred eighty millions per year industry is already feeling the pinch the steel workers in north rhine-westphalia went on strike to try and save their mill from closure it didn't work they may not be the only ones germany is importing more and more electricity from abroad which will mean higher prices some plants have closed in germany. sunspots threaten to close the companies off thinking to relocate in response to countries abroad germany's neighbors don't share berlin safety concerns over nuclear power france uses atomic energy to generate the vast majority of its electricity whereas to the east poland is set to invest over

fourteen and a half billion euro and the construction of eight new nuclear power plants one of them around one hundred kilometers from the german city of dresden feature all over r.t. jenny. in the u.k. euroscepticism has pretty strong within the party line for some conservative backbenchers the tory rebels reach across the floor to varied with the opposition labor party to demand to the cash flow to brussels archie surfer it has the details from london all of them a significant defeat for the government since they came to power we saw two m.p.'s standing alongside labor calling for real term cuts to the budget now those negotiations all that budget against take place in brussels later on this month the prime minister david cameron had been calling on his party to stand with him in his approach to these negotiations that he'd been talking about

a rise in line with inflation which would have been at about eighty percent the government today very much trying to downplay that defeat they're saying of kools they're going to be fighting for the person's best interest but clearly many members of their own policy feeling that the best wasn't good enough it was the significance of the fifty three tory m.p. that has left the government looking increasingly disconnect is not just for their own party but from the british public as well certainly when it comes to this question the you know we heard the prime minister nick clegg speaking today in a keynote speech talking in defense of britain's role within the e.u. now he spoke about the arguments the repatch ation of powers from the as a full promise wrapped in a union jack one m.p. describing it last night in the very passionate debate that we saw taking place in the house of commons as alice in wonderland economics and that's very much the

sense you get from a lot of people that is disconnected from reality it was people who are tightening their belts at home to be contributing even more money to the decision made last night isn't going to be binding on the government. it's certainly going to put prime minister david cameron under a fair amount of pressure when he dealings that negotiating table we don't know of course what the outcome of those negotiations will be but one thing is absolutely certain that that this very heated debate an argument about britain's role within the is looking set to run and run. r g spoke to one of the conservative m.p.'s who oppose the prime minister in the vote mark pritchard a believes the e.u. is in the efficient and that britain's should get the chance to vote on whether to remain in the club but inflation increase on the budget would equate to an extra three hundred million pounds a year and that would increase over the so multi annual budget up to two thousand

and twenty and at a time when the u.k. families are having to make very difficult often painful decisions with their household budgets local councils doing the same and even our own national government here in the u.k. i think it is absolutely right to expect the european union to try and trim some of its very large budget a budget that will increase to around one trillion euros up to two thousand and twenty so there is certainly room for efficiency savings this is a an entity which has failed to have its own account signed off for the last seventeen years it's i think a wasteful inefficient entity why i think it's politically smart for the government and i'm a member of the governing party to actually be in touch with public opinion majority of people in the united kingdom have never had a say on our relationship with europe we need a referendum this side of the general election in this parliament and let democracy reign and let the british people have their voice heard. the new internet law has

come into effect in russia allowing the government to close the websites potentially harmful to children but some bloggers and human rights activists are already mulling over whether its intentions are purely about protecting kids or paving the way for online censorship got a piece going off reports well an online registry which is going to contain the list of banned websites is already operating the purpose of this law is to protect children from potentially harmful information on the internet and the way it works is that authorities monitor the web and find things like instructions how to consume drugs or to make weapons or propaganda of suicide or of course pornography then this website is recommended to take this information down if it doesn't then its host is recommended to do the same and if the info still stays online then the website is put on this list in this registry is blocked and remains blocked until the information is taken down the reaction on this law has been mixed while there

are those who believe that it could actually help protect children or all but also those who believe that it could be used to censor the internet but needless to say similar child protection laws are not something which was created here in russia it's a widespread practice over the wall for a look at europe then there is some very tough legislation especially in some scandinavian countries with punishments going all the way up to jail sentences if we look at the united states then there is the controversial law which prohibits children under thirteen from using search engines like google and g. mail but this has been causing quite a lot of criticism as well while here in russia we're talking about temporary measures because like i said these blocked websites could be unblocked if the information is taken down there's also always the possibility of taking these cases to course which could also with the band set by the authorities. on the way it is of breaking the send with our t's abby martin stay tuned for that.

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